Dear IFIP TC 6:
Please distribute the following Call for Participation announcement for the 2002 International World Wide Web conference (WWW2002).
Best Regards, Arun Iyengar
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WWW2002 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference
Sheraton Waikiki Hotel Honolulu, Hawaii, USA May 7-11, 2002 http://www2002.org
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You are cordially invited to actively participate in the 2002 International World Wide Web Conference May 7-11 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Beginning with the first International WWW Conference in 1994, this prestigious series of the International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2) also provides a public forum for the WWW Consortium (W3C) through the annual W3C track.
Hawaii's mid-Pacific location and multi-cultural heritage make it the finest place in the world to draw together a mix of attendees from the Americas, Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. International researchers, technologists and leaders from industry, academia, and government will gather at WWW2002 to define, refine, present, demonstrate and discuss the latest ideas and developments in web technologies. We want you to be one of them.
You can actively participate in WWW2002 through a variety of activities. The conference will consist of a three-day technical program, preceded by a day of tutorials and workshops and followed by a "Developers Day." Developers Day will be devoted to in-depth technical sessions designed specifically for web developers. The technical program will include refereed paper presentations, peer-reviewed presentations, plenary sessions, panels and poster sessions describing current work. The tutorials and workshops will provide in-depth looks at specific areas of current interest.
PAPER SUBMITTAL PROCEDURE 1. All manuscripts must be submitted electronically in either HTML or PDF format. Manuscripts will be accepted between September 1, 2001 and November 13, 2001 at the website to be announced at http://www2002.org. Please follow the detailed instructions for submission at that site. You will receive confirmation within 3 days of the successful receipt of your manuscript. 2. Papers must contain original material and not be previously published or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere. 3. The official language of the conference is English. 4. Each paper must have a title page which includes the title of the paper, full name of all authors, and complete addresses including affiliation(s), telephone number(s), and e-mail address(es). Papers should be no longer than 8,000 words. 5. The first page of the manuscript should include the title and abstract of the paper. 6. All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 reviewers.
KEY DATES Paper Submission deadline: November 13, 2001 Author Notification: January 25, 2002 Final Paper Due: February 25, 2002
REFEREED PAPERS TRACK
The 2002 International World Wide Web conference seeks original papers describing research in all areas of the Web. Submitted papers should be previously unpublished and not currently under review by another conference or journal. Topics include but are not limited to the following:
Applications Browsers and User Interfaces Electronic Commerce and Security Hypermedia Languages Mobility and Wireless Access Multimedia Performance Searching, Querying, Indexing, and Crawling Semantic Web
Submissions will be reviewed by the program committee. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and will also be accessible to the general public via the WWW2002 Web site. Authors of special merit papers will be invited to submit extended versions for publication in a special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.
ALTERNATE TRACKS
Other program tracks at WWW2002 will address topics of interest through presentations of current work, panel discussions and demonstrations. Submissions will be reviewed by the program committee and all accepted papers will be published in a separate proceeding from the ACM publication used for the Refereed Papers Track. GeneraI questions about these alternate tracks can be sent to Dave De Roure. Papers and presentations are invited in the following areas:
W3C Track (Prepared by the W3C) Education Global Community (includes culture & society and internationalization) Telehealth Practice & Experience Vendor Track
POSTER SUBMISSION
The poster area provides an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present and demonstrate their recent web-related research and obtain feedback from their peers in an informal setting. It gives conference attendees a way to learn about innovative works in progress in a timely and informal manner. Accepted posters will be displayed in a dedicated poster area and the presenters featured during an evening poster reception. Abstracts will appear in a proceedings volume distributed to all attendees.
Questions about the WWW2002 Technical Program can be submitted via email to pcchairs@www2002.org
Program Committee Co-Chairs
Dave De Roure, University of Southampton, UK Arun Iyengar, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
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TUTORIALS
A program of tutorials will cover topics of current interest to Web design, development, services, operation, use and evaluation.These half- and full-day sessions will be led by internationally recognized experts and experienced instructors using prepared content. Inquiries about the WWW2002 Tutorials can be submitted via email to tutorials@www2002.org
Tutorials & Workshops Co-Chairs Michael Bieber, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Bebo White, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, USA
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WORKSHOPS
Workshops provide an opportunity for researchers, designers, leaders and practitioners to explore current web R&D issues through a more focused and in-depth manner than is possible in a traditional conference session. Participants typically present position statements and hold in-depth discussions with their peers within the workshop setting. Inquiries about the WWW2002 Workshops can be submitted via email to workshops@www2002.org
Tutorials & Workshops Co-Chairs Michael Bieber, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Bebo White, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, USA
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DEVELOPERS DAY
Developers Day (D-Day) will be devoted to the interests of Web developers, and will offer in-depth discussions of technologies and tools at the forefront of the Web. This day-long program will consist of several parallel streams focused on specific content areas. D-Day sessions are designed to be timely and state-of-the-art. Inquiries about the WWW2002 Developers Day can be submitted via email to devday@www2002.org
Developers Day Chair Murray Maloney, Muzmo Communication, Inc.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2) University of Hawaii Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC)
CONFERENCE PARTNER International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 6.4 on Internet Applications Engineering (IFIP WG 6.4)
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